Word: cumbria
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...boosted real incomes 9% since Blair came to power, the country's infrastructure is creaking from decades of malnutrition. On health, Britain spends a smaller share of its GDP than any other major industrialized country. The result: in Cardiff some patients wait six years for hip operations; in Cumbria it takes two years to see a psychologist. On transport, problems are obvious to any Eurostar passenger as soon as the 185-m.p.h. train from Paris to the Channel Tunnel stutters the rest of the way to London. The train network's managers have just announced a need for an additional...
...slaughtered animals casts gloom across the countryside. By week's end at least 250,000 animals had been destroyed, and that was only the beginning. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation...
...where they mixed with other livestock and immediately passed the virus on. "Pigs spread it, sheep carry it, cattle show it," says Johnson. William Cleave, a large cattle dealer from Devon, unwittingly purchased a flock of diseased sheep at the market and took the animals to another market in Cumbria, before sending them to a farm in Highampton, 700 km away...
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